CHAMPCAR/CART: Cleveland: Conquest Racing race report

Heylen's Cleveland Race Cut Short
Jan Heylen forced to end his race early due to an accident on Lap 35
Jan Heylen ( ...

Heylen's Cleveland Race Cut Short
Jan Heylen forced to end his race early due to an accident on Lap 35

Jan Heylen (#34 Champ Car Grand Prix
of Belgium / Cosworth / DP01 / Bridgestone) began his second race of the
2007 season with a clean standing start and wise pit strategy. He was
moving up through the competition when contact with car #22 in turn 10 on
lap 34 occurred. Heylen and Gommendy had been battling for tenth position
when Tristan's #22 car spun off track taking Jan's #34 Grand
Prix of Belgium car with him. The crash caused a fair amount of damage
to the car and Heylen was unable to finish the race. The entire Conquest
Team will now be working on repairing the car in time for Circuit Mont
Tremblant next weekend.

"I'm disappointed to not be able to finish the entire
race," said Heylen. "Everything was clicking with the team
and the No. 34 car and I think we were on pace to have an excellent
finish. However, racing is all about the unexpected and this was
something that we couldn't do anything about. We'll just have
to look forward to Mont Tremblant and getting the car ready to race
again."

"It's unfortunate what happened between Jan and
Gommendy," said Eric Bachelart, Conquest Racing Team Owner.
"We suffered a lot of damage to the car and I think that the entire
crash could have possibly been avoided. I know we had a good pit strategy
and we were on plan to produce a top ten result when everything happened.
All we can do is look ahead to fixing the car and running in Mont
Tremblant."

Conquest Racing now looks forward to the sixth round of the 2007 season
of the Champ Car World Series at the Circuit Mont Tremblant in St.
Jovite, Quebec, Canada on Sunday, July 1st at 2:00 p.m. EST. The race
will be broadcast live on ESPN beginning at 2:00 p.m. EST.